Chapter 852 - 830
Manbao sat with Madam Tang for half a day and received a list from her—names of powerful, influential, or wealthy ladies in Yizhou City who fancied peonies.
After leaving the County Governmental Office, Manbao hired an ox cart to leave the city.
Outside the city, there were flower farmers. Manbao stopped quite a distance from the flower fields and gave the hired cart driver a piece of silver, saying, "Please go into the village for me and buy two pots of peony flowers, red ones, any variety will do, just pretty ones. I’ll wait here for my brother. You can come back to pick me up later."
The driver hesitated, "Don’t you want to look at the flowers yourself?"
"No need, they’re just for personal viewing. As long as they’re red, I don’t have much requirement. Buy two pots, and the rest of the money is for your trouble."
Hearing this, the driver immediately took the money and was about to drive off when Manbao said, "Leave the cart, my brother will need to load things on it later."
The driver looked at Manbao skeptically, so she smiled and said, "Don’t worry, I won’t run off with your ox. I’m a doctor at Jishi Hall. If you don’t believe me, I can give you three taels of silver as a deposit, how about that?"
The driver hesitated for a moment, then said embarrassedly, "Well, Miss, you’d better give me three taels of silver as a deposit then. My ox is an important asset for my household."
Manbao expressed her understanding and took out three taels of silver from her pouch to give him.
After he left, Manbao then sat on the ox cart, closed her eyes slightly, and sank her consciousness into the system, "Keke, help me contact the flower trader we dealt with last time."
While helping her make the connection, Keke asked, "Do you intend to..."